Inspirational Teacher Quotes

"You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care."--Marva Collins

Teachers! We all have an opinion about them - good
or bad - and we all owe a great deal to that special teacher that believed in
us. (I'm sure that's true.) And it can't be an easy job to do -
being a teacher, either! If it was, we'd all be doing it, no? So
that's why...

I've compiled this modest list of quotations about teachers and teaching - to celebrate the good and bad of teaching

Whether you're disappointed with the teachers in your life, or whether
you think great teaching got you where you are today, you'll find a quotation
to suit.

...I think so anyway. If not, do let me know. I
welcome your comments about these inspirational quotes. Now tuck that
shirt in, and off we go...

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Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational teacher quotes - what they say...

"The
mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."-- William Arthur Ward

"Teachers
open the door, but you must enter by yourself."-- Chinese Proverb

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think,
than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for
ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."--
Bill Beattie

"How is it that little children are so intelligent
and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." -- Alexandre
Dumas

(Or it could be that fear takes a hold of
us, as we get older, Alexander, and we become 'less' - less intelligent, for one
thing.)

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all
your life what you learned this afternoon." -- Anonymous

"We
can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience."--
Sasha Azevedo

"Teaching people skills without
giving them a vision for a better future -- a vision based on common values --
is only training." -- Nido Qubein

"Teaching
is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."--
Jacques Barzun

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where
his influence stops."-- Henry Brooks Adams

"The
quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are
intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." --
Maya Angelou

"If women are expected to do the same work as men,
we must teach them the same things." -- Saul Bellow

(And a
good place to start with this 're-education' (of women) is in that of body
image and self image, in my humble opinion.)

"I'd
rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not
to dance." -- E E Cummings

"Real education should
educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links
us with all humanity."-- Lady Nancy Astor

"An
understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly
enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude
to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw
material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul
of the child."--Carl Jung

Inspirational
teacher quotes - what they still say...

And no page on inspirational
teacher quotes would be complete without this Pink Floyd video(Another
Brick in the Wall). Hey, even Teach agrees I'm sure (don't you?). I mean,
"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control..." -
oh boy, they don't write 'em like they used to, eh!

"Teaching
should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as
a hard duty" -- Albert Einstein

"He who dares to
teach must never cease to learn." -- Richard Henry Dann

"Education
must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a
rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
-- Noam Chomsky

"I like a teacher who gives you something
to take home to think about besides homework."-- Edith Ann

(Would YOU like some homework? :-) How about taking one of these self-help tests, then! )

"A
master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own
expectation." -- Unknown

"There are three things to
remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then
stuff them elegantly" -- Lola May

"The art of teaching is the art
of assisting discovery."-- Mark van Doren

"Rewards
and punishments are the lowest form of education."-- Chuang-Tzu

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."--
George Bernard Shaw

(Ah, the legendary (un-) inspirational teacher quote.
It was GBS who gave it 'what for' to the teachers all along - fancy that! Do you
agree with this somewhat inflammatory comment? Let
us know! (D Liton did not agree - and this is what she said!))

And, as an antidote to GBS here's a brand new quote from MB (Michael Barringer)...

"Teaching is the greatest of all the arts, for the teacher creates many masterpieces all at the same time, education is the foundation of intellect, and intellect is the foundation of genius, and the student with the inspired mind, that will one day rise above everyone's expectations to lead their own life, and possibly our nation, and the world owe's it all to you, the teachers!"
-- Michael Barringer

"No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young
minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves  but what
the teachers are themselves."-- Rudyard Kipling

(And if you
like this by Rudyard Kipling, you'll like that: his poem called If.)

"Experience
is the worst teacher, it gives the test before the lesson." -- Vernon
Law